Screenwriter Russell T Davies has remarked on his shock to see Liz Truss making her first speech as Prime Minister at the Tory party conference wearing the same dress as the fictional fascist leader from his dystopian drama Years And Years. He took to social media to draw the comparison.
Russell, 59, shared a side by side photo of the Prime Minister at the Tory Party conference yesterday, October 5, and the fictional populist right-wing Prime Minister Vivienne Rook - played by Emma Thompson - wearing the same outfit. The writer posted the image to Instagram, with the caption: “This is getting weird”.
The dress, called the Forever Dress from Karen Millen, was worn by Emma Thompson’s character as she introduces barbaric UK concentration camps, which she calls “Erstwhile sites”. In the disturbing scene she advises her Government to “let nature take its course” by allowing disease to “control the population of camps”.
